A tardy apology on May 18th aimed at staving off pressure from fellow MPs that he resign only heightened it.

5月18日姗姗来迟的道歉本是为了缓解来自议员同事要求他辞职的压力，然而却反而使之进一步高涨。

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Her response will be to try to preserve her popularity but fend off pressure for policies she sees as economically senseless.

反观默克尔夫人，她的反应则是尽力维持支持率但她认为抵挡压力的政策没有经济上的意义。

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As already explained in the previous use cases - only accessing the data that you need can take a lot off pressure of the SharePoint Content Database.

在之前的用例中已经解释过——只访问你需要的数据可以大大降低SharePoint内容数据库的压力。

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The researchers say their findings support the idea that a huge explosion or explosions caused fire and pressure powerful enough to kill off life on the Earth.

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There's something relaxing about that, it takes off the pressure a little bit.

这其中有种轻松感，卸掉了身上的一点压力。

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"That keeps pressure off the general practitioners, the primary care physicians, and the hospital doctors.

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Mr Indyk now thinks America should stand up to Israeli leaders when they plead political trouble at home to fend off pressure to curb settlements.

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But such a worry is overdone, particularly in the case of Wal-Mart, which he expects will be able to fight off pressure on its profit margins.

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While we believe margins will stabilize around 29% through our forecast period, the Trefis community anticipates upside to this metric as Yahoo fends off pressure from competitors.

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